While social media has its positive sides, it is also important to consider the flip side and properly evaluate its negative impacts. One of the latest negative effects of social media is the so-called fake news phenomenon. It has been proven that the massive distribution of fake news plays an important role in the success or failure of important events and causes [1]}, [2]}. Apart from the dissemination and circulation of false information, social networks provide the ideal toolkit for corrupt users to perform a wide range of illegitimate actions such as spamming and political Astroturfing [3]}, [4]}.
